From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6463"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: "Philip K." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 05:54:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC90-0001Zs-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC8z-0003gJ-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7h-0001qQ-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7g-0004I4-Nr; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7f-0003Mt-6C; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> (philipk@posteo.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256915 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies? > yes, you just have to start the dictd deamon locally and point the > client to localhost. If any special configuration is needed to tell dict to look at a local dictionary, that is bad design. It should look for a local dictionary by default. Looking elsewhere should be the special case. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)